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“We seem to have forgotten what life is all about.” So begins this heartfelt, laugh-out-loud follow-up to Máté’s cult classic, A Reasonable Life. He warns us that lulled by electronic pacifiers and hypnotized by sublimed greed, we are becoming physically inert, intellectually blinkered, and devoid of deep emotion. Our unquestioned obsession with goods and gadgets has displaced true and lasting joys like our health, creativity, fulfillment, and, most importantly, our time spent with one another.

How has our pursuit of the American dream left us? Financially insecure, estranged from our family, helpless without our wireless toys, increasingly isolated, overweight and, pervasively depressed. But don’t despair, a renaissance is underway. Máté’s call for genuine, physical, passionate living challenges you to re-evaluate the meanings of “success,” “security,” technological “progress,” and how you work, eat, play, and love.

Simple steps can turn your life around, let you take control, and find satisfaction in a better and much fuller existence. Surprising statistics and engaging anecdotes will rekindle your forgotten pride and joy in independence, neighborliness, working with your hands, and the irreplaceable rewards of time spent in nature and in face to face relationships.e the mall and gadgets a rest and get a real life.

Ferenc MßtT was born in Transylvania and, at age eleven, escaped when the Hungarian revolution was crushed by Soviet-tanks. He grew up in Vancouver and has lived in California, Paris, Rome, the Bahamas and New York. He has worked on a railroad extra-gang and as a boat-builder, photographer, deckhand and book editor. He is the author of 15 books translated into eleven languages. His A Vineyard in Tuscany, was a New York Times Notable Book, and shortlisted for Spain's literary Camino El Cid award. His Tuscan Trilogy was an international bestseller and his Dugger/Nello historical novel series have made him "the leading, nautical writer of our time." With his wife and son, he works the MßtT vineyards surrounding the 13th century friary they restored in Montalcino, Italy. They have won global recognition for making one of the world's best Brunellos.